Operational Delivery Enhanced Team Leader

Warwickshire County Council; Bedworth; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Volunteering & Wellbeing Day

Generous annual leave

Refer a Friend package

Why work for Us Brochure

Job summary

Warwickshire County Council is recruiting a Specialist Team Manager for the Home Finding Hub located predominantly at the Pears Centre in Bedworth. You will co-manage the hub and directly supervise the five Referral and Placement Officers responsible for external searches for foster care, residential provision, short breaks and supported accommodation.

You will oversee child-centred home finding by working with social workers to ensure referrals are balanced, reflect each child’s needs and

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise the team: Directly supervise five Referral and Placement Officers responsible for external searches for foster care, residential provision, short breaks and supported accommodation.
• Oversee child-centred home finding: Work closely with social workers to ensure referrals are balanced, reflect each child’s needs and capture their wishes and feelings.
• Build effective partnerships: Develop and maintain positive working relationships with the social workers, managers, our internal children’s homes, commissioners, Quality Assurance and external providers.
• Champion children’s voices: Represent children and young people clearly and meaningfully in meetings and written information, ensuring their views inform home-finding decisions.
• Focus on outcomes: Keep children’s safety, wellbeing, education, relationships and preparation for adulthood central to the work.
• Provide organised operational leadership: Bring sound knowledge of relevant legislation and processes, alongside a clear focus on service delivery and performance.

Job description

About the Team:

The Specialist Team Manager will join Warwickshire’s Home Finding Hub, based predominantly at the Pears Centre in Bedworth. We are a busy team with a rewarding purpose: finding homes for children who cannot remain with their families or significant others, where they can feel safe, cared for and loved.

We work closely with social workers to ensure referrals provide a balanced picture of each child and capture their voice. Strong relationships with our internal children’s homes, commissioning colleagues and external providers are central to our work. You will share Hub duty management responsibilities with another manager, who supervises the Hub’s social workers and the wraparound team providing direct support to children. As duty manager, you will provide matrix management to the social workers responsible for finding internal homes for children. You will also directly supervise five Referral and Placement Officers, who coordinate all external searches for foster care, residential provision, short breaks and supported accommodation.

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service. Click here to find out more about Warwickshire County Council’s Children and Families Service.

Our Offer to you includes:

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply
• Click here to download our Why work for Us Brochure

About the Role:

We are recruiting for the role of a specialist Team Manager in the home finding hub. You will co-manage the home finding hub and directly supervise the referral and placement officer team. We are seeking a full-time worker on a permanent basis.

Lead and supervise the team: Directly supervise five Referral and Placement Officers responsible for external searches for foster care, residential provision, short breaks and supported accommodation.

Oversee child-centred home finding: Work closely with social workers to ensure referrals are balanced, reflect each child’s needs and capture their wishes and feelings.

Build effective partnerships: Develop and maintain positive working relationships with the social workers, managers, our internal children’s homes, commissioners, Quality Assurance and external providers.

Champion children’s voices: Represent children and young people clearly and meaningfully in meetings and written information, ensuring their views inform home-finding decisions.

Focus on outcomes: Keep children’s safety, wellbeing, education, relationships and preparation for adulthood central to the work.

Provide organised operational leadership: Bring sound knowledge of relevant legislation and processes, alongside a clear focus on service delivery and performance.

Key Requirements:

This role is Countywide so there will be some travelling within Warwickshire and also beyond Warwickshire to children and young people placed further afield.

This role will be primarily undertaken within office hours however agile working will be required, with some evening work depending on the needs of families.

If you are looking for a role and embrace a challenge and have experience of and a passion for working with children and young people in care, we look forward to hearing from you.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below;

Operational Delivery Enhanced Team Leader

Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make:

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feelsvalued, included, safe, supported,andwelcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

Click here to view the benefits at Warwickshire County Council.

Additional Information:

Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible. We don't want to keep you waiting so we will be starting the initial shortlist and assessment process while the job advert is running. Please check your emails or applicant account via our jobs portal for any updates on your application

To discuss the role please contact Tracy Avill - [e-mail]

Closing Date: 19th November 2026
Interview Date: 27th November 2026

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact [e-mail] and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more